USASOC political advisor Dennis Hearne receives promotion

Dennis Hearne, foreign political adviser to U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, has been promoted to the civilian equivalent of one-star general in the Foreign Service Officer Corps.

He is a senior Foreign Service officer in the U.S. State Department and the first person to hold the position at USASOC.

Lt. Gen. Charles Cleveland, the commander of USASOC, officiated at the ceremony and praised Hearne for his work since his arrival in August.

Hearne, a North Carolina native, entered the Foreign Service in 1985 after receiving a bachelor's degree from Wake Forest University.

He speaks Croatian and Portuguese and was a political adviser in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s.

Hearne has worked with the International Criminal Tribunal war crimes commission for the former Yugoslavia and has been a political adviser to the commander of U.S. and coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan.

"Mine is one of the many political adviser positions spread throughout the military commands and a reflection of the way the relationships between the Department of State and military have deepened due to the different situations we face today," Hearne said in a news release.

"The Career Foreign Service Officer Corps is like military officers. We are presidentially commissioned, and this appointment today was especially rewarding," Hearne said.

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